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I'm thrilled to present this guest blog post by another parent … [Read more...]

Here at Marketing, Media and Childhood, we love it when people take action. So I invited reader Catherine Cook of Denver to write a guest post about her petition to Mega Brands (owned by Mattel) to stop shelving toys based on violent video games in … [Read more...]

Only if you are concerned about women's stalled progress in STEM fields, and how that potentially effects their own futures in terms of income and fulfilling careers, as well as the innovative and competitive strength of the overall U.S. economy. No … [Read more...]

"Houghton Mifflin's Channel One News makes the execution of James Foley the top news story for students down to the third grade. Picture of executioner holding the knife that beheads James Foley is shown to middle school students."
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Michelle Cove, who is the founder of MediaGirls, a media literacy program in Brookline, Massachusetts, sent along this photo and comment, as a follow up to my previous post about Old Navy advertising.
"Sexualizing girls early isn’t always about … [Read more...]

I'm wondering how exactly Old Navy could have made the decision that this is an appropriate advertisement for its clothing for little girls.
Remind you of anyone?
This child is about 10 years old, and recreating a pose from … [Read more...]

Never before have parents had to "deliberately and consciously counter many of the dominant messages of their own culture."
(A synopsis of a Must Read article for all parents of small children)
One day, Gloria DeGaetano found herself with two … [Read more...]

My nephew, 9 years old, was watching one of the early games of the World Cup when he came into the kitchen and asked his mother, “Can we go see The Purge?”
"Is that a kids movie?" she asked. No he said. It's rated R.
Then he said, “What does … [Read more...]

Two things in the news that parents need to be aware of: unsafe apps your child may be using, and ways media may be using your child.
Companies are collecting information about your child for profit
As schools hand out laptops and tablets and … [Read more...]